{"id":199839,"date":"2007-06-22T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/22\/indian-navy-prepares-for-mig-29-21-06-2007-paris-flight-daily-news\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:48:00","slug":"indian-navy-prepares-for-mig-29-21-06-2007-paris-flight-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/22\/indian-navy-prepares-for-mig-29-21-06-2007-paris-flight-daily-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy prepares for MiG-29-21\/06\/2007-Paris-Flight Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like the Russians may have a growing business in providing low cost carrier capability to nations like India.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/21\/215058\/indian-navy-prepares-for-mig-29.html\">Indian Navy prepares for MiG-29<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only the first prototype of the Indian Navy\u2019s new MiG-29s has flown, but the force\u2019s preparations for the new aircraft are proceeding apace.<br \/>The Indian Navy has not operated conventional carrier -based aircraft since the withdrawal of the Hawker Sea Hawk in 1983, after which the STOVL BAE Systems Sea Harrier became the service\u2019s only carrier-based fighter.<br \/>Captain GM Gopakumar of the Indian Navy told Flight Daily News that Indian Navy pilots are already flying exchange tours on Indian Air Force MiG-29s, and though delivery of the first INAS MiGs has been delayed from November 2007 until March or April 2008, pilot conversion training in Russia will commence in August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like the Russians may have a growing business in providing low cost carrier capability to nations like India. Indian Navy prepares for MiG-29 Only the first prototype of the Indian Navy\u2019s new MiG-29s has flown, but the force\u2019s preparations for the new aircraft are proceeding apace.The Indian Navy has not operated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}